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Open Call: Open House at FORMAT 2017

This year, FORMAT Photography Festival will consider the topic of HABITAT. Minclick, in collaboration with Blindboys (India) and in partnership with Delhi Photo Festival, have been invited to create a site-specific evolving installation within the exhibition space, to respond to the theme on a personal and community level – both locally and globally.

The end result will be a life sized ‘House of Cards’ where visitors will be invited to construct and adapt a giant cardboard structure made from a series of interlocking panels, printed with images from an open call.

Open House is a collaboration between Miniclick and Format in the UK and Blindboys and Delhi Photo Festival in India. A second incarnation of Open House is planned for the next Delhi Photo Festival in 2018.

For the first part of our public engagement project, we’re asking people to submit audio files responding to the following question:

‘What does HOME mean to you?’

You can talk about anything you like – places, people, books, music, buildings, things – it doesn’t have to be where you currently live. You can talk more broadly about feeling at HOME in the world (or not); your hopes and fears for the future of our society and the ways in which we connect. These are all just suggestions; anything that comes to mind when you think of HOME is exactly what we want to hear.

Your audio will be added to an ongoing loop of voices from all around the world, all contemplating the same question, within the exhibition space, alongside a soundscape commissioned for the event. The audio will play for the duration of the festival, and we’ll add new voices to the loop as they’re sent to us.

We want to try and create a global community of voices, to share our unique perspectives on the world. For that reason, we won’t publish people’s names – everything will be anonymous – so please feel free to share whatever you like. Visitors of all ages will hear your audio; so do make sure that your language isn’t offensive to others.

To submit:

Please send an MP3 or .WAV of no more than 5 minutes to submit@miniclick.co.uk – please label your audio file with your name and location (we won’t publish this information, but it’s helpful for us to know where people are sending from). The audio should be clear, but does not need to be recorded with professional equipment – direct from your phone or computer is fine.